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The directors of the NetBSD Foundation and the Core group wish to
welcome Alan Barrett as new member of the Core group.

He is replacing Antti Kantee; our sincerest thanks to Antti
for all his efforts during his core tenure, specially for pushing
through the tiered port support model and for making bug bounties
a reality.

The FreeBSD Foundation and the NetBSD Foundation have acquired a non-exclusive copyright license to the libcxxrt C++ runtime software from PathScale, a leader in high performance Fortran, C, and C++ compiler products for AMD64, Intel64, and MIPS. This software is an implementation of the C++ Application Binary Interface originally developed for Itanium and now used for the x86 family by BSD operating systems. Libcxxrt will be available under the 2-clause BSD license.

The Illumos project is "a community maintained derivative of the OpenSolaris ON source, including open source replacements for closed bits, and additional changes" (from http://www.illumos.org/).
A couple of month ago, the Illumos community launched "The Illumos pkgsrc project", thus communicating for the first time on pkgsrc being officially supported by a SunOS derivative.

Although already mentioned as being supported in the past, some bits were missing, which had been fixed now: RTL 8110S driver in altboot for V200 boards, s390rtc(4) driver, full support for the QNAP's microcontroller, i.e. shutdown, reboot, buttons, LEDs.
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The NetBSD core team has announced
a tier system for the hardware architectures supported by NetBSD.
The tier system classifies ports into three tiers.
Summarizing, the tiers consist of ports that NetBSD will support, ports that NetBSD does its best to support,
and ports which may be desupported soon.
The purpose of this classification is to clarify the development roles between old and new architectures.
By making modern architectures an official development priority, the tier system
ensures that NetBSD will continue to be the top choice for a fast, secure and portable free OS on the hardware of today and tomorrow.

Bugfix: postscreen DNSBL scoring error. When a client disconnected and then reconnected before all DNSBL results for the earlier session arrived, DNSBL results for the earlier session would be added to the score for the later session. This is very unlikely to have affected any legitimate mail.

Rump is a componentization of the NetBSD kernel. It lends itself
to multiple uses, such as running kernel code as services in
userspace and for example makes the high-quality NetBSD kernel code
base available for use in multiserver microkernel operating systems.

Running unmodified NetBSD kernel code in standalone userspace
applications has been possible for years. Recently, it also became
possible to use unmodified userland binaries as remote clients for
these lightweight and modular kernel server instances. Things work
straight out of the default NetBSD installation. For example, it
is possible to run an unmodified web browser against a rump TCP/IP
server and restart the TCP/IP server with minimal impact to the
browser. Furthermore, it is possible to run a dedicated TCP/IP
server for every networking application on the system. The combined
flexibility of using proven kernel drivers in lightweight virtual
servers is completely unique to NetBSD.